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Posted to users@cocoon.apache.org by Doug Serres <ds...@netscape.net> on 2000/03/21 19:53:11 UTC

Internet Explorer & PDF (via Cocoon, FOP)

When I try to run the http://host:port/cocoon/samples/fo/test-fo.xml example
Internet Explorer starts to open the page but never starts the Acroreader
plug-in. Netscape opens the plug-in ad displays the page just fine.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour?

I.E. 5.01
Windows 95b
Acroreader 4.05

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Re: Internet Explorer & PDF (via Cocoon, FOP)

Posted by Ross Burton <bu...@dcs.kcl.ac.uk>.

>When I try to run the http://host:port/cocoon/samples/fo/test-fo.xml
example
>Internet Explorer starts to open the page but never starts the Acroreader
>plug-in. Netscape opens the plug-in ad displays the page just fine.

Shouldn't this be in the FAQ?  What is happening is that IE is ignoring the
MIME type being sent with the file, and assuming it is an XML  file as it
has a XML extension.  Very silly.  To work around it rename the xml file to
something obscure, such as pxml.  Then IE will actually look at the MIME
type.

Regards,
Ross Burton